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agriculture and horticulture, and other persons and bodies, as he may be directed 
by the board, and prepare, as required by the board, reports for publication. 1894, 
c. 20, s. 10. 
12. The treasurer shall receive all moneys belonging to the board, and pay out the 
same only for bills approved by it, and shall render annually a detailed account to 
the board of all receipts and disbursements. 1894, c. 20,s. 11. 
13. The board shall, annually, in the month of January, report to the minister of 
agriculture a statement of its doings and any regulations made under this act, with 
a copy of the treasurer’s account for the year preceding, and abstracts of the reports 
of the inspector of fruit pests, and of the secretary; and such report shall be laid 
before the legislative assembly immediately, if it be in session, or, if not, within fif- 
teen days after the opening of the next session thereof. The members of the board 
shall receive as compensation for their services their mileage actually paid out when 
attending the meetings of the board, and shall be allowed a sum not exceeding five 
dollars a day for time actually employed, to be fixed by the lieutenant governor in 
council. 1894, c. 20,s. 12. 
14. The said board shall, when making its annual statement, report to the minister 
of agriculture what (if any) legislation is needed in aid of the horticultural and 
fruit-growing interests of the Province. 1894, c. 20,8. 13. 
15. The powers and duties devolving by this act upon the said board and the in- 
spector of fruit pests, in relation to fruit and fruit trees, shall extend to hops and 
hop plants, for the purpose of preventing the spread of disease among hops and hop 
plants, and of extirpating any pests affecting the same. 1894, c. 20,s. 14. 
16. Every person violating the provisions of this act shall be liable, upon sum- 
mary conviction before any justice of the peace, to a penalty not exceeding fifty 
dollars. 1894, c. 20,8. 15. 
RULES AND REGULATIONS MADE AND PUBLISHED UNDER AUTHORITY OF SECTION 
7 OF THE ‘‘ HORTICULTURAL BOARD AcT, 1894,” AND OF THE AMENDMENTS 
THERETO. 
1. These regulations may be cited as the “ horticultural regulations.” 
2. In these regulations the word ‘‘pests” shall mean and include woolly aphis, 
apple-tree aphis, scaly bark louse, oyster-shell bark louse, San Jose scale, red scale, 
borers, codlin moths, currant worms, caterpillars, or other known injurious insects, 
and all fungous diseases. ‘‘The board” shall mean the provincial board of horti- 
culture. 
3. All nurserymen, fruit growers, and all persons owning, occupying, or managing 
an orchard, garden, or nursery infected with any pest shall notify the member of 
the board for the district in which such orchard, garden, or nursery is located, or the 
secretary or inspector, or the agent of the board in the district, of the fact that such 
orchard, garden, or nursery is so infected. 
4, Allimporters of nursery stock, trees, or plants must give notice to a member of 
the board, or his agent, or the inspector of fruit pests, upon the arrival of any nur- 
sery stock, trees, or plants, before the removal of such nursery stock, trees, or plants 
from any dock, wharf, mole, station, or warehouse where such nursery stock, trees, or 
plants have been landed, and if such nursery stock, trees, or plants are found to be 
free of insect pests and fungous diseases the said member of the board, his agent, or 
the inspector of fruit pests shall issue a certificate to that effect; and all such nursery 
stock, trees, or plants, if found to be infected with any insect pest or fungous disease, 
shall be dealt with according to the rules and regulations of the board. All dealers, 
nurserymen, or persons selling or distributing nursery stock, trees, or plants for which 
no clean certificate is in force shall, before distributing or offering for sale any article 
above mentioned, notify the member of the board, his agent or representative, in 
whose district any such article is found, or the secretary of the board, or the iuspector 
